Electricity

The Company’s sugar factories and bleached bagasse pulp factories are equipped with electricity and steam generating modules which use bagasse, a byproduct from sugar production, as primary feedstock. The electricity and steam generated are used in the production processes of our 3 sugar factories and other factories. The surplus electricity is sold to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) and the Provincial Electricity Authorities (PEA) under the power purchase agreements (PPAs) which the present selling contracts will be under Feed in Tariff term instead of adder term and get better return. Kaset Thai Bio Power Co., Ltd. (KTBP) has been established to operate the 60MW biomass power plant which is currently in commercial operation. The Group has another two new power plants: TEP and RPBP with the capacity of 50 MW which both factories have completely operated.